Bethpage-Tribune_1984-11-15

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VOL. 19 NO. 33 Week of Nov. 15 - Nov. 21,1984 20 cents per copy
Sports Complex
Opens
County Executive Francis
T. Purcell cut the ribbon
formally opening the coun­ty's
new Mitchel Park
Sports Complex in Union-dale.
The 46 - acre, $6 - million
recreational complex was
the site ol the international
Carries for the Disabled in
June and of the New York
State Senior Games last
month. Today's ceremony
marked the facility's official
dedication.
"The Mitchel Park Sports
Complex is the 16th jewel
added to the county's neck­lace
of major parks, which
provide a broad range of
recreational opportunities to
every segment ol the coun­ty's
population ~ toddlers,
youngsters, teenagers,
adults and senior citizens,"
Purcell said. "The county's
extensive network of parks,
museums, golf courses,
beaches, ice rinks and other
r e c r e a t i o n a l facilities
stretches from the Sands
Point Preserve on Hemp­stead
Harbor on the North
Shore to the ocean sands of
Nassau Beach Park in Lido
on the South Shore."
The Mitchel Park Sports
Complex is located off Cha­rles
Lindbergh Boulevard in
Mitchel Field in the heart of
the county.
The complex contains a
track stadium with a nine -
lane, 400 - meter track made
of Elastaturf and seating for
5,000 spectators. The track
surrounds a dual purpose
football - soccer field. At the
north end of the track are
pole vault, long and triple
jump and high jump run­ways
and pits. At the south
end are cages for the
hammer and discus throw
and a throwing area for the
shop put.
The track stadium will be
a center for intercollegiate
and high school track and
field meets.
The acreage around the
track contains a variety of
muti - purpose fields where
seven soccer or football
games may be played at the
same time. There are also
four combination softebalf
and baseball fields, which
will eventually be lighted,
and two lighted fields, one
for baseball and one for
Softball.
The park also includes the
county's ultra - modern rifle
and pistol range.
Besides adding lighting to
the existing playing fields,
the county plans to develop
21 more acress for addi­tional
fields, PuEcell said.
The county's 16 major
parks provide a^ wide range
of activities T- including
indoor and outdoor ice skat­ing,
court and field games,
swimming pools, roller skat­ing,
camping and live enter­tainment.
The museums and
peserves include Tackapau-sha
Museum in Seaford,
Garvies Point Museum in
Glen Cove, the Old Beth-page
Village Restoration
and the Cradle of Aviation
Museum in Mitchel Field in
Uniondale.
At the opening ceremoinies for the IVIitchel Park Sports Complex in
Uniondale are, left to right, Abram C. Williams, Commissioner of Parks;
John B. Kierman, Supervisor of the Town of North Hempstead; and
Francis T. Purcell, Nassau County Executive.
Thanksgiving Yesterday
Tasty foods and baked goods, from recipes dating back to the 19th Century, will be
prepared when the old fashioned wood burning stoves, beehive ovens and large iron
cauldrons are-fired up for the annual Thanksgiving Preparation at Old Bethpage Village
Restoration.
Cooking activities are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, November 17 and 18, and
again on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 23, 24 and 25, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.
A fat turkey or duck will be spitted and roasted in the reflector oven on the Williams
House hearth. Decorated pumpkin pies will brown in the Powell House brick oven and
additional goodies, chosen from a mouth-watering list of items that graced Long Island
tables in the mid-I800's, will biibble, bake and stew.
Late fall crops for winter eating were also preserved at this time of year. Several methods
of food preservation such as making apple butter will be demonstrated.
Additional activities on these days will include parlor music and a Thanksgiving target
shoot on November 17th and 18th. Costumed villagers will fire flintlock muskets and
caplock rifles to compete for prizes and food.
Old Bethpage Village Restoration, operated by the Museum Division of the Nassau
County Department of Recreation and Parks, is located on Round Swamp Road, Old
Bethpage.
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